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Please could you stop Firefox from bringing existing windows over on top of my active Firefox window. It is REALLY annoying.

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Ok. I open firefox with an initial window. Then I open another separate Firefox window. Then I navigate to some (any) site in the second window. The first window appears on top of the second window.

I am not the only person to have been annoyed by this "feature".

Ok. I open firefox with an initial window. Then I open another separate Firefox window. Then I navigate to some (any) site in the second window. The first window appears on top of the second window. I am not the only person to have been annoyed by this "feature".

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One possible reason for this is that the latest window used Flash and the earlier ones didn't. The history and workarounds are in this thread: Opening New Windows and Shockwave Flash.

Some more recent pages on disabling the protected mode feature:

Flash needs to completely unload from memory (restarting Firefox might help) before it will take effect.

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One possible reason for this is that the latest window used Flash and the earlier ones didn't. The history and workarounds are in this thread: Opening New Windows and Shockwave Flash.

Some more recent pages on disabling the protected mode feature:

Flash needs to completely unload from memory (restarting Firefox might help) before it will take effect.

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Thanks for this. It has been driving me to distraction.

The best solution for me seems to switch the flash addon to "Ask to Activate"

Cheers, Andrew